This essay explores a series of affective, sexual and temporal disturbances that Shakespeare's child characters create on the early modern stage and that lead these characters often to their deaths. It does so by turning ...

This essay discusses the nature of (old and new) national monuments
in post-apartheid South Africa which even now, twenty years after the
first free elections, remains a democracy in transition. The discourse of ...

This section of The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine explores magic. The author discusses: magic in Aug.'s thought; medieval reception-encyclopedic and legal; medieval reception-theological and ...

By examining the map and map-like illustrations published in Hans Staden's Warhaftige Historia (1557), this article argues that the maps underscore the truthfulness of the narrator by reinforcing his role as an eyewitness ...

In what follows, we will explore some of the links between
self-creation and artistic creation in the works of two early twentieth century
occultists who were also responsible for works of fiction and
poetry: the novelist ...

The Anthropocene is the radical intersection of human history and geological time. Humans
have belatedly realised that they have become a geophysical force on a planetary scale. This creeping
realisation has an Oedipal ...